Liz Treston was one of the first people who contacted me regarding this blog sooooo many ago. She has always been one of my biggest supporters, but most importantly a person who has inspired me with all the work she has done for our Long Beach community. Like so many of us, her home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. With rebuilding, she faced added costs of making her house accessible. Unfortunately her contractor took off with her money. Please help this wonderful lady get back home! There’s a fundraiser on March 24th at the Knights of Columbus (970 W. Beech Street, Long Beach, NY). If you can’t make the event, you can always help by donating directly to: http://www.nycspinalcord.org/liz-treston-fund/

Liz has a C6 spinal cord injury and lives in Long Beach, NY. Her home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and now, more than 5 years later, she is still not home!

After FEMA declared her wheelchair accessible house “substantially damaged”, meaning that the cost of repairs would be more than half the appraised value and demanded that she either elevate or rebuild, Liz finally found a contractor to do the work in the summer of 2016. Now her contractor has taken $100,000 and disappeared, leaving the house undone and uninhabitable. Lack of Accessibility:

“Finding a place where I can rent in Long Beach was — and still is — very difficult,” said Liz. She has been living in different rental homes in the West End of Long Beach for more than a year while her Wyoming Avenue home is being elevated. LIz has lived in three different rentals, struggling to find wheelchair-accessible buildings while she rebuilds.

“During the summer, I had a rental where I took a shower outside because I couldn’t get into the bathroom.”

Get Liz Treston Home Fundraiser Saturday, March 24th 3pm-6pm @the Knights Pub in the West End.

Ticket available via cash or check in advance $60, or at the door $75. Space is limited!

Some of the breweries donating their time and frosty beverages so far are The Long Beach Brewery, Flying Belgian, Lithology, Montauk and Sixpoint.

Tax- deductible donations are through NYC Spinal, a chapter of United Spinal Association- a 501(c)(3).

I’ve fallen behind on news since the election: The IDA stuff with that medical building on Park Avenue, the whale in Reynolds channel or the old cadillac ‘crashing’ a movie set. I just can’t keep up with it all. I’m all alone here…. There are also so many posts I still wanted to write, like how Former-President of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce Mark Tannenbaum UNSUCCESSFULLY sued me and Allison Blanchette in two separate lawsuits for the same two anonymous comments that were posted on this blog even though, in my opinion, Mark Tannenbaum had absolutely no proof on who the authors were. (I personally don’t make comments under the names Allison and Sandra B). We settled. I said “no way” to a confidentiality agreement, so being that the cases were about this blog and then public figure Mark Tannenbaum, I really can write all I want about it. And yes, he effected this blog, so It is blog news and Long Beach news. Oh yes, I sued Mark Tannenbaum back for $500,000 in damages in an Anti-Slapp lawsuit. In the end, we all walked away from it all. Why did I settle that way? Everyday I’m kicking myself for doing it. I know I would have won, but an unexpected issue came up. Put it this way: If you knew why I settled you would call me a saint. I will say this: the chamber of commerce should be kissing my ass that I settled because I was about to turn that entire organization upside down. Holy shit it would have been a shit storm, in my opinion. Those who knew what my case was about, including three board members of the Chamber of Commerce would agree with me, I can guarantee you that. It’s just amazing how Allison and I had to deal with this when we were absolutely 10000000000000% innocent. I still have that time stamped Facebook Messenger message when Allison wrote something along the lines: “I am being sued by Tannenbaum and I didn’t write anything.” Yeah, that was a keeper for court and a judge. I don’t make up so-called fake names and comment about people I don’t know, never met, never spoke to, never did business with. If I have something to say about a public Long Beach person like the then-President of the Chamber of Commerce, I do it in a blog post as an opinion. Not buried as a fucking comment under two fucking ‘fake’ names. If anybody is curious about the anonymous comments were about, here is a similar a comment that was printed and published by the Long Beach Herald below. Funny how the Long Beach Herald and the author of the article didn’t get sued. And Mark did see this LETTER because he participated by answering it in the next Herald Issue – hence my Anti-Slapp lawsuit (this is just one example of many many many many……….)

The new Long Beach Chamber of Commerce is great, by the way. Where was I? Oh yeah, I am burnt out on this blog business. I really wanted to blog about how that new JJ Coopers covered the old Library faced with a sheet of metal. How this drives me absolutely insane that they did that, but whatever. I am too tired. The historical aspect of our downtown is destroyed already anyway. This was just the door slamming us on the ass on last time. I really wish JJ Coopers good luck, but holy shit was that a crappy thing to do.

Yes, it’s true that I still have stuff to blog about, but I’m done for now indefinitely. Ignorance is bliss and I am extremely anxious to fade into a deeper state of obscurity. You can still find me tweeting and posting on instagram. I actually deactivated my personal facebook account , so sorry if i’m not responding to anything there. I’m not the biggest fan of facebook, so if my blog is silent, so will that. I actually have no way of posting this article on facebook, so if somebody can do me a favor……

I really want to thank all my readers for coming here daily! To the great (and not-so-great) people I met through the blog. You’ll see me around town. Little did I know that an unsuccessful purchase of citybythesea.com [taken by Newport] would cause me to flip the words around and create something that ended up with thousands of daily followers and over a million views in its lifetime. I am not a writer, so there were so many difficult times for me to articulate my thoughts into written words. I wasn’t so bad, was I?

I guess that’s it for now. I still own seabythecity.com for the next ten or so years, so this blog will still float around in the world wide web so long as our internet laws permit it. If anybody has any desire to show any appreciation, I would love it if you use my Amazon.com referral link if you do any Black Friday shopping from a computer. OBVIOUSLY, SHOP LOCAL, but if Amazon is one of your destinations, using my referral helps me out a lot and it doesn’t cost you a penny more.

The set for WE ARE UNSATISFIED, A Billy Crystal movie being filmed at Gentle Brew. Long Beach, NY 2017

BIlly Crystal will be shooting a scene for “WE ARE UNSATISFIED” at Gentle Brew today. Filming will also take place at Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach possibly next week. Here is the summery of the movie from IMDB:

“A comedy about the unlikely friendship that kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A., forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs, and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the “failures” in their lives.”

I was emailed the following letter, which was sent to the Nassau County IDA folks. There is apparently a hearing this Tuesday at 4pm. regarding a Long Beach IDA application. It looks like some folks on Facebook are getting this confused with the iStar Superblock IDA request. This morning I read a Newsday article that says the hearing is for that medical building near NYSC on Park Avenue that got ZBA approval to be renovated into an apartment building [NEWSDAY: Developer seeks tax breaks on apartment project in Long Beach].

10:53pm – I am still waiting for official numbers, but it sounds like Bendo and Mandel got the most votes, which would have them serve 4 years on City Council. Chumi came in third, which means she will only serve two years before seeking re-election again. That is assuming none of these candidates decide to run for higher office during their tenure.

The election bracket is set. Tuesday, November 7th is the day we’ve all been waiting for. Three Long Beach City Council seats are up for grabs. With nine candidates running, many some perhaps one of you is wondering who I plan on voting for.

These are my picks. You don’t have to agree with me. That’s fine. I don’t care.

The following guest post is of the opinion of Roy J. Lester and not of Anthony & Seabythecity.com.

By Roy J. Lester

A lot of people have asked me how I am voting this year and when I tell them I am splitting my vote between Democrats and Republicans they always ask why. The truth is that there are three seats available on the Long Beach City Council this year and it is one of our most important elections this City has ever seen! The direction of this City for the next few decades will be decide tomorrow at the polls.Continue reading Guest post by Roy J. Lester on our City Council Election→